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We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.13 and 3.1.37.



This high priority release addresses urgent problems that sites are

currently experiencing.



OSG 3.2.13 and 3.1.37 contain:

- Fixed HTCondor Gratia probe to properly account for grid jobs

- Fixed HTCondor CE startup when using a very recent version of HTCondor



Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3213

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3137



Need help? Let us know:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure



We welcome feedback on this release!

The GOC would like to announce a special maintenace window on Tuesday, July 29 from 12:00 to 21:00 UTC. Please note this is the fifth Tuesday of July. The maintenace is required to physically move several servers to satisfy network, power and space constraints and install new equipment. No outages of production services is anticipated, but physical access to racks containing production servers is required.

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.



OSG Repo (repo.grid.iu.edu)

Update mash files to include non-release el7 repos (osg-3.2-el7-development, -testing, etc.)



All Services

There will be OS updates; reboots will be required. Downtime should be minimal, and the usual high-availability mechanisms will be used to reduce service downtime even further and eliminate it in most cases.

However, services may experience degraded performance, and the services without HA mechanisms (OIM and Twiki) will still experience brief downtimes.

We are pleased to announce OSG Software versions 3.2.12 and 3.1.36.



OSG will include CAs conforming to IGTF accredited IOTA (Identifier-Only

Trust Assurance) profiles starting with this release.



OSG 3.2.12 contains:

- Update to HTCondor CE 1.2

- Update to HTCondor 8.0.7

- A fix for file corruption when using parallel transfers in gridftp-hdfs



OSG 3.2.12 ang 3.1.36 contain:

- Updated CA certificates (IGTF 1.58)

- VO Package V55

- A fix for the BeStMan initialization script

- nmap is no longer required by osg-client

- Improvements to osg-configure

- Improvements to osg-pki-tools



Release notes and pointers to more documentation can be found at:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3212

https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/Release3136



Need help? Let us know:



https://www.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/HelpProcedure



We welcome feedback on this release!

The GOC will upgrade the following services beginning Tuesday, July 8th, 2014 at 13:00 UTC. The GOC reserves 8 hours in the unlikely event that unexpected problems are encountered.



OIM / GOC-TX / MyOSG

Moving github.com and updating release mechanism



GOC Ticket 1.78

Added check for missing ccs on tickets REST interface

Added fontawesome CDN

Added links to goc ticket RSS feed

Updated GGUS Test URL for ggus1 GOC-TX target

Updated Footprint model so that security/_notification creation / update will not send notification directly to customer / CCs (GOC ticket will send signed email to customer / CCs. Assignee will continue to receive emails directly)

Made description template to load only if the desc area is empty (TICKET-63)

Made Email model to use goc@ as from address by default

Added php notice suppressor for CustomController

(patched) fixed various issues found for RSS feed



Internal DNS/LDAP Improvements

Deploying dnsmasq as a caching-only nameserver on all hosts in order to speed DNS queries and insulate against outages

Shortening DNS and LDAP query timeouts to improve failover performance in case of outages

Rebuilding secondary internal DNS/LDAP server so as to ensure its consistency

Installing primary internal DNS/LDAP server on a different host, one with a single RAID-6 array